Improvement in foot-lifters for blacksmiths



`smith while being s hod.

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k is the band, which passes under the animal and'` 'secures the saddle firmly upon his back.

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TIIoIiIAsc; WILLIAIIIS,l oF WARRENTON MISSOURI.

Letters Patent No. 113,379, dated April 4, 18711.

`uinPRovEIi/lIsh-r IN Fo'oT-LIFTI-:Rs FoR BLAcKsMrrHs.

The Schedule referred to inthese Letters Patent and making part of the same.v I

Nature and Objects of the Invention.

My-invention relates to the combination-Aoi` a saddle-` bar and straps in such a manner that Whenpla'ced on a horse or other animal he may be shodby a smith without holding any part of the weight-of the animal,

but makes theianimal support himself; that anyngly, vicious, or scary animal cannot get one of hisffeet on the ground; and as no animal will act ugly while on only three of his feet, he will quietly submit to the Description of the .Accompanying Dra-wing.

. Figurel is a side View of my machine when a shoe is to be put ,on the fore-foot.

Figure 2 is a view of the fore-foot when the front part of the fore-foot is to be trimmed.

-Fgure 3 is a view of the hind foot when a shoe is to `be pnt upon it. v

Figure 4 is an end view of the saddle.

General Description.

A-is a horse.

B is the saddle, which should be substantially constructed.

ais the saddle-top, and is similar` to the top of a center-table, and is h'rmly secured to the bridge-pieces b b are pads, and are also firmly secured to the d is a bar, with a hook, f, at one end thereof. e is a fulcrnm, which may slide up and down the bar d.

'i' 1'. t' are staples o n 'the saddle-top a, to which the hook f is attached.

o o o are buckles on the straps.

mis a lcng strap, with a loop at the upper end, through which the bar d passes, and the lower'end of thestrap passes through or is fastened to the buckle o, so that the animals footmay be raised to. any desired height.

n is a strap, lwhich is fastened around the -leg of the animal by the buckle o,iand.has a short strap, r, fastened to the side of the strap at, which short strap fr' has a buckle, o, on the end.

.19 is a strap, used in shoeing the hind feet, and is fastened just above the hoek. The strap n is fastened just above the hoof, and the stra-p mis fastened to it, and passes under the strap and holds thebottom of the foot turned up ready for the Workman. v

When an animal is to `be shod, the saddle B is secured upon his back, the strap n is fastened just above lthe fetlock of the fore-leg, theffoot israised tothe proper heighuandis then held there :by the strap m, attached to the straps 'r and a by the buckle o.

When the front part of the foot istoA be trimmed, the strap n is fastened" to the fore-legabove the knee, and the foot is raised and held at the proper height in the same manner as before described.

'When the hind foot is to be shod, the strap n is fastened just above the hoof, and the strap p is fastcned just'above the hock, the strap m passes under 1J, and is secured to the strapsfr` and n by o, and the foot is raised and held at the height desired by the straps, as before set forth.

Claims.

1 claim as my invention-..-

1. The combination ofthe saddle B and the bar d, and the straps on, n, and r, with buckles o, substantiall y as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

2. lhe combination of the saddlek B and the bar d, and the straps m, n, and 0* and p, with the buckles o, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set orth. v

THOMAS G. WllLLIAMS.

l Witnesses:

GHA'RLEY WILLIAMS, W. A. JONES. 

